Excerpt from Elements of Geometry: Containing the Principal Propositions in the First Six, and the Eleventh and Twelfth Books of Euclid
May be mentioned the theory of parallel lines, the doctrine of proportion, and many things in the eleventh and twelfth books, relating to folids, which are ufually found extremely.
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